Recent advances in triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion and singlet fission, towards solar energy applications

AJ Carrod, V Gray, K Börjesson - Energy & Environmental Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar energy is an ample renewable energy resource, with photovoltaic (PV) technology
enabling a direct route from light to electricity. Currently, PVs are limited in photon …

Expanded theory of H-and J-molecular aggregates: the effects of vibronic coupling and intermolecular charge transfer

NJ Hestand, FC Spano - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The electronic excited states of molecular aggregates and their photophysical signatures
have long fascinated spectroscopists and theoreticians alike since the advent of Frenkel …

Near‐infrared (NIR) organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs): challenges and opportunities

A Zampetti, A Minotto, F Cacialli - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid development of the science and technology of organic semiconductors has
already led to mass application of organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs) in television …

Polariton chemistry: controlling molecular dynamics with optical cavities

RF Ribeiro, LA Martínez-Martínez, M Du… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular polaritons are the optical excitations which emerge when molecular transitions
interact strongly with confined electromagnetic fields. Increasing interest in the hybrid …

Organic optoelectronic materials: mechanisms and applications

O Ostroverkhova - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Organic (opto) electronic materials have received considerable attention due to their
applications in thin-film-transistors, light-emitting diodes, solar cells, sensors, photorefractive …

Triplet pair states in singlet fission

K Miyata, FS Conrad-Burton, FL Geyer… - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
This account aims at providing an understanding of singlet fission, ie, the photophysical
process of a singlet state (S1) splitting into two triplet states (2× T1) in molecular …

Sensitization of silicon by singlet exciton fission in tetracene

M Einzinger, T Wu, JF Kompalla, HL Smith… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Silicon dominates contemporary solar cell technologies. But when absorbing photons,
silicon (like other semiconductors) wastes energy in excess of its bandgap. Reducing these …

Theoretical modeling of singlet fission

D Casanova - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Singlet fission is a photophysical reaction in which a singlet excited electronic state splits
into two spin-triplet states. Singlet fission was discovered more than 50 years ago, but the …

Unconventional singlet fission materials

T Ullrich, D Munz, DM Guldi - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Singlet fission (SF) is a photophysical downconversion pathway, in which a singlet excitation
transforms into two triplet excited states. As such, it constitutes an exciton multiplication …

Harnessing singlet exciton fission to break the Shockley–Queisser limit

A Rao, RH Friend - Nature reviews materials, 2017 - nature.com
Singlet exciton fission is a carrier multiplication process in organic semiconductors that
generates two electron–hole pairs for each photon absorbed. Singlet fission occurs on sub …